Well... not exactly. Usual suspects... work is draining all of my energy.
However, I did finish making vocabulary lists for the 食尚玩家 TV show.
Total unique glyphs: 582
Total combo glyphs: 383
Hmmm, I really thought the unique glyph count was going to be a lot higher (like around 800 or 900).
Since my unique glyphs goal is 1,800 and combo glyphs is 1,000, I still have A LOT to do.
My main goal is to be able to communicate in full sentences, I'm not just going to go back to my 1st and 2nd grade kids books. They're great for simple sentences and vocab, but theirs no back and forth conversation in those books.
Instead, I'm going back to my Practical Audio-Visual Chinese books. I have three volumes, but I think just doing volume 2上 will get me to my goals as well as lots of sentence patterns. The book comes with a VCD (yeah VCD, not DVD), but the audio quality is not that good. But, the books are very well written with technical explanations of sentence patterns and word usage. I started with this book a few years ago and had my wife help me. The sentence writing is rather challenging... so I am probably going to need her help again. However, I may just take each go through each chapter dialogue, vocabulary, and the basic examples of each sentence pattern (instead of getting into full sentence writing). We shall see...
My current strategy (yes, I changes weekly I guess) is keep adding to my vocab lists and sentence pattern list until I reach my glyph count goals. Then... study like hell. The main problem is that to add vocab takes at least two solid uniterrupted hours, which I rarely get. However, when I do get it, I'm usually drained. So, I'm going to try really hard to finish it my end of April (wow, are you crazy?). So, that May thru December (nine months), I will just have to study each day (no more adding vocab, translating, etc.).
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